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Following Up: Disastrous, Destructive or Disruptive?

Friday, October 12, 2007

Alan Ehrenhalt, executive editor of Governing magazine and author of The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America clears up what Hillary Clinton quoted him writing about "unfettered market forces" that came up in this week's Republican debate.


Comments

  • [1] ab October 12, 2007 - 11:15AM

    Gee...Ghouliani contradicting his views when he was Mayor...what a surprise.

    So what EXACTLY is it going to take for the mass-media (including NPR) to finally call this phoney a flip-flopper? If he were a Dem that tag would have been stuck on him a LOOOONG time ago.


  • [2] Trevor from U$A October 12, 2007 - 11:21AM

    To hell with free markets I say!

    Arise, the wretched of the earth,

    Arise, prisoners of hunger,

    Reason thunders in its crater,

    It is the eruption of the end!

    Let's make a blank slate of the past,

    Crowds, slaves, arise, arise!

    The world is going to change from its base,

    We are nothing, let's be everything!

    |: This is the final struggle

    Let us gather, and tomorrow

    The Internationale

    Will be mankind!

    Stand up, all victims of oppression,

    For the tyrants fear your might!

    Don't cling so hard to your possessions,

    For you have nothing if you have no rights!

    Let racist ignorance be ended,

    For respect makes the empires fall!

    Freedom is merely privilege extended,

    Unless enjoyed by one and all.

    So come brothers and sisters,

    For the struggle carries on.

    The Internationale,

    Unites the world in song.

    So comrades, come rally,

    For this is the time and place!

    The international ideal,

    Unites the human race.


  • [3] Gary October 12, 2007 - 11:22AM

    Before he was mayor, Rudy G made his name as US Attorney enforcing the securities laws, leading Wall St traders away in handcuffs. He was passionate about his belief in the need for regulated financial markets, and has often defended the actions he took at that time as being tough but necessary.


  • [4] chestine from NY October 12, 2007 - 11:43AM

    We have a bin at the end of the hall for recycled trash - but we are required to put non-recyclable trash into plastic. here is my compromise: Take canvas bags with me - but when i do wind up bringing home plastic, It has to be used 3 times before it finally carries that trash.

    Here's a question - a place for apt dwellers to compost - I have to go all the way to Union Sq to donate my composting - I can also buy compost there.


  • [5] chestine from NY October 12, 2007 - 11:44AM

    I still have sturdy plastic bags from a Paris supermarket for (wet) things that shouldn't go into canvas


  • [6] chestine from NY October 12, 2007 - 11:46AM

    vancouver hs those food scrap bins and they also have rats!


  • [7] chestine from NY October 12, 2007 - 11:48AM

    whole foods gives you credit for bringing your own bag


  • [8] chestine from NY October 12, 2007 - 11:49AM

    plastic bottles leech xenoestrogens into contents, then into people - not good


  • [9] Amy from Manhattan October 12, 2007 - 12:24PM

    What I never hear conservative politicians or economists say is that the government isn't the only source of "fettering" of the market. A market dominated by 1 or 2 huge companies, like, oh, say, Microsoft (see various court cases), is no more free than a market controlled by a government.


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